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Middle East

Washington History Seminars

  • Imperfect Strangers: Americans and Arabs in the 1970s (Wm. Roger Louis Lecture): September 12, 2016
  • A New Look at the 1948 Arab-Israeli War: February 29, 2016
  • A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War: September 21, 2015
  • Bureaucracy, Citizenship and Remembrance in Wartime Iraq: April 22, 2013
  • Historical Perspective on the Arab Spring: April 8, 2013
  • A Muslim Weimar?: March 4, 2013 
  • Islam and Democracy for the 21st Century: February 13, 2012
  • Missed Opportunities for Peace: The US, Jordan, and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War: October 31, 2011
  • “Rogue States” and the US: September 19, 2011
  • Iran in 1953 and the Uses of Middle East History: September 12, 2011
  • Oil and World Power: November 29, 2010
  • The History of the West Through Arab Eyes: March 8, 2010 
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Upcoming Events

  1. On the Judgment of History

    January 29 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  2. Gateway State: Hawai’i and Cultural Transformation of American Empire

    February 1 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  3. White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

    February 8 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  4. A Twentieth Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe

    February 17 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  5. Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

    February 22 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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